+1 (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Wednesday, January 13, 2016, 18:30 (3476 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV

This is one of the things that I enjoyed about earlier Call of Duty games, where the perspective jumped around between different characters all doing their own thing, but often tying into each others' stories.

One of the best was in Modern Warfare 2, where you're playing as an American soldier holding off a Russian invasion in Washington D.C. after a helicopter crash. As you're making you last stand, a mysterious bright flash fills the screen. The action cuts to a mission where you play as a member of the British SAS who helps his former commander capture (and launch) a Nuke from a Russian sub. The perspective shifts to an Astronaut who tracks the Nuke across space, and watches it explode over D.C. before being killed by the blast. Then you cut back to the American soldier making his last stand, where it's revealed that the bright flash was the nuke detonating overhead, which fries the invading Russian's vehicles, leveling the playing field for the Americans, and the player then has to fight in the quiet darkness of the black rain caused by the nuke...

Man, that game was fantastic...